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Scott Pearce
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I Can Do Magic
Before I became a teacher I worked as a magician and I truly believed in magic. I did children’s parties and some shopping centre shows on school holidays. I performed under the name "The Amazing Jane." I had an assistant called Eddie, he was a short middle-aged man that reeked of cigarettes and stale urine. He was surly, balding and obese, but when we were on stage we sparkled every bit as much a
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“That psychologist wanted me to come back and see him and the psychiatrist wanted to help my scrambled thoughts, but these people, they're just priests of the new religion. Every unpalatable thought and inconclusive experience is a catastrophe to be treated. They hear confession and then offer salvation and sacraments in the form of labels and pills.”
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“The wilderness was dangerous; it infected me. I would be forever unmoored, inured to the safety of isolation.”
― The Rider on the Bridge
― The Rider on the Bridge
“We were all going to die. There was no way out. We fluttered like drowning moths.”
― The Rider on the Bridge
― The Rider on the Bridge
“They hadn't left me, I concluded, hadn't acted against me. Rather, they had survived in a world that had left them to fend for themselves. I couldn't be angry. I could only miss them, mourn for them.”
― The Rider on the Bridge
― The Rider on the Bridge
“God couldn't compete with football; a person could not worship in two different houses”
― faded yellow by the winter
― faded yellow by the winter
“the seed of the apple doesn't turn out like the tree it came from. It becomes something of its own, sometimes better, sometimes not.”
― faded yellow by the winter
― faded yellow by the winter
“Sentimentality is like religion and it demands a spiritual sufferance. It comes from frightened people.”
― faded yellow by the winter
― faded yellow by the winter
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